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One of the crucial task of a Visual Effects supervisor on set is to shot spherical degree high dynamic range (HDR) panoramas. Those panoramas can be very useful in post production as a source of light or just a good reference for computer generated environments. This article goes through all the steps required to create basic HDRIs.

Shooting process

As a professional you have to be consistent with your results. That why it is very important to have a clearly defined procedure in place. This video will explain what to check before shooting and how to properly shoot HDRIs

Shoot set of picture with different exposure in 4 direction (90 degree angle)

Assuming that you use 8 mm lens on full frame camera. You have to end up with overlapping pictures for each direction

Depending on your goal you can shoot between 3-5 pictures for each direction with 1 or 2 f-stop difference.

Slate

It is a good practice to shoot a slate for every panorama that you shooting. The reason for that is when you stiching your photos it might be difficult to find where is one sequence ends and another begins. An example of a slate by using a smartphone illustrated on the Figure 5.

Slate for each panorama should include:

Project name

Scene (e.g. Forest, Silver Lake, Garage Interior etc.)

Point Number (Different shooting point within the same scene)

Figure 5: Example of Android slate

Stitching images together

I would recommend PTGui for stitching your images. It does fantastic job combining multiple exposure Canon RAW images and then stitching it together.
If you did not messed up alignment or image exposure along the way this process should be automatic.